Description

[Mark Twain]. J. Price and C. S. Haley, compilers.The
Buyers' Manual and Business Guide;Being a Description
of the Leading Business Houses Manufactories, Inventions, etc. of
the Pacific Coast, Together With Copious and Readable Selections,
Chiefly From California Writers. San Francisco: Francis &
Valentine, Steam Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1872.

First edition. Octavo. 192 pages.

Brown patterned cloth with titles stamped in gilt on the front
board. Light shelf wear with minor scuffing to boards. Contents
slightly toned, else remarkably nice. A very good copy.

A perfect adjunct for the Mark Twain collector. This business
directory for the San Francisco area, aside from being packed with
wonderful period advertisements, is also filled with several
selections written by or about Mark Twain and selections by Bret
Harte and Ambrose Bierce.

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